IMPHAL, Sept 5

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday formed a committee of eminent persons, including Nobel laureate Indian econmist Amartya Sen, to advise on any modification that might enable the body to fulfill its global mandate more effectively. South Africa

Bs Reporter / New Delhi September 05, 2008, 0:42 IST

In yet another forecast that India

Africa must grasp funds generated by carbon credit trading to pay for cleaner, cheaper energy and help fight climate change that threatens to undo years of economic development, the UN climate chief said on Wednesday.

Yvo de Boer, attending the first pan-African carbon-trading forum designed in part to match specialist investors with low-emission projects in Africa, said African countries had been discouraged by low carbon investment relative to other regions.

If the Buddhadeb govt in West Bengal has got itself into a political and economic mess over acquiring land for the Nano project, it may have done well to have taken a leaf out of the Karunanidhi govt

PANAJI: Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on Tuesday said in the Legislative Assembly that the government stood firm on the decision to scrap special economic zones (SEZs).